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Materials Science & Engineering

This Guide is in support of the research and teaching needs of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UVA

Try First - Spectral Databases and Information Sources

In order to find a spectrum, you first need to know two pieces of information:

What kind of spectra do you want?
- IR, NMR, UV/Vis, etc.
How can you search for it? (what do you know?)
- Chemical name, formula, list of peaks, etc.

This will determine where you go to look.

SDBS (Spectral Database for Organic Compounds)
IR, MS, 13C NMR, 1H NMR, ESR, and Raman; over 35,000 compounds
NIST WebBook
IR, MS, UV/Vis
Millipore Sigma (Aldrich) Catalog
IR, NMR

SciFinder-N This link opens in a new window
IR, NMR (predicted from ACD Labs and experimental from BioRad-Sadtler), and some MS spectra may be included in a substance's Registry record.